Input Unicode Character by Adb

Source https://stackoverflow.com/questions/14224549/adb-shell-input-unicode-character

adb shell input doesn’t support unicode character, there is an open project to handle this ADBKeyBoard

Enable/Disable it

Switch to ADBKeyBoard from adb

adb shell ime set com.android.adbkeyboard/.AdbIME

Check your available virtual keyboards:

adb shell ime list -a

Switch back to original virtual keyboard: (in my case)

adb shell ime set com.google.android.apps.automotive.inputmethod/.InputMethodService

Input

1. Sending text input

adb shell am broadcast -a ADB_INPUT_TEXT --es msg '你好嗎? Hello?'

If it’s not working, you can try to input as base64

adb shell am broadcast -a ADB_INPUT_B64 --es msg `echo -n '你好嗎? Hello?' | base64`

2. Sending keyevent code (67 = KEYCODE_DEL)

adb shell am broadcast -a ADB_INPUT_CODE --ei code 67

3. Sending editor action (2 = IME_ACTION_GO)

adb shell am broadcast -a ADB_EDITOR_CODE --ei code 2

4. Sending unicode characters

To send 😸 Cat

adb shell am broadcast -a ADB_INPUT_CHARS --eia chars '128568,32,67,97,116'

5. Send meta keys

To send Ctrl+Space

adb shell am broadcast -a ADB_INPUT_MCODE --eia mcode '4096,62'

6. CLEAR all text (starting from v2.0)

adb shell am broadcast -a ADB_CLEAR_TEXT